"Good writers are of necessity rare."

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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

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"So the lover must struggle for words."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."

Clarence Thomas, American Judge

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"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."

Tom Skerritt, American Actor

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"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so."

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"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

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"The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised."

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